Send a graduation announcement that is as unique as your grad! We wanted to share with you six graduation announcement ideas that are Best-In-Class with their standout design and trendy style. Spot these standout designs in our graduation announcements and invitations with a Golden Pear icon. Here are our most popular Golden Pear designs. Simply click on the image to learn more.

Foil-Stamped Graduation Announcements
These graduation announcements let your personality shine through! Real foil in gold or silver is stamped on the cards for the look of formal graduation announcements without all the pomp and circumstance.

Ribbon Booklet Graduation AnnouncementsFriends and family will love to unfold these graduation announcements. A ribbon runs through the announcement and is tied shut with a bow for recipients to open. It adds an extra touch to these designs that will reveal beautiful photos from childhood to senior year.

Multi-panel FoldsThese accordion-style graduation announcements puts them at the top of the class. The 5-panel design unfolds to reveal oodles of photos, personalized messages and party details. A sure hit with family and friends!

Pop UpsWhere else are you going to find a pop up graduation announcement? Only at Pear Tree! This unique format is interactive for the recipients as they lift three panels to reveal photos and a message from the graduate. Absolutely unique and definitely will deliver the Wow! factor.

SpinnersThis is another interactive format that are a hit with customers! Spin the wheel on the side to reveal party details or four photos of your grad. Friends and family will love taking these announcements for a spin!

Photo BooksTen pages filled with photos and memories, these photo books become wonderful keepsakes for friends and family. From baby pictures to scholastic achievements, it’s the story of your journey.

Congratulations on the arrival of your little one! Now that you have ooo’d and ahhh’d and soaked in all the little dimples of your newborn, it’s time to share all the picture-perfect details with family and friends so they can cherish the excitement, too. You’ll want to choose birth announcements that bring out the best in your baby photos, but where to start?

Lucky for you, when our designers are creating new birth announcements, they are already thinking about ways to highlight your baby in the best way possible. Their designs usually include multiple photos in different sizes and shapes so you can use a variety of shots, combined with fun, stylish fonts that let you layer in even more personality. To make the selection easier for you, we wanted to share our 5 most popular baby announcement ideas. Simply click on the image to see more details.

#1. Taped Collage Birth Announcements. This announcement features 5 photo spots to show off your bundle of joy. The trendy washi tape design on the back adds the perfect touch. You can see how it’d be our top seller!

#2. Welcome Baby Boy Birth Announcements. These birth announcements are easy on the checkbook and yet, showcase your newborn exactly how you pictured. There’s a total of four photo areas on this card and all colors can be personalized to your liking.

#3. Lasting Introduction Magnet Birth Announcements. We love this idea – a magnet birth announcement! Your baby is so darling, your family and friends can’t help but keep it up year round.

#4. Creative Girl Collage Birth Announcements. This sweet birth announcement features lots of photo areas for you to focus on the dimples, tiny toes and wee little fingers with loved ones.

#5. Triple the Fun Birth Announcements. On the front of this card, it features three photos without text or design to let family and friends marvel at the cuteness of your baby. On the back, you get the trendy watercolor design that shares the details of your newborn with another beautiful photo.

There you have our 5 most popular birth announcement ideas. Do you have a favorite? We’d love to hear from you in the comments below! Also, if you need inspiration ideas for newborn photo ideas, check out our Pinterest board or start personalizing your birth announcements!

At Pear Tree, we are inspired by design and appreciate new design. Earlier this week we heard about two moms who, like us, are pushing the limits on new design. These moms created the brand, Princess Awesome. They have a very inspiring story about how girls have various interests in toys, animals, superheros and more, but there aren’t any dresses that have those designs. These moms took it upon themselves to solve that. They started this clothing design business in a basement, found the resources they needed to get these one-of-a-kind designs and started selling locally and then online. They have 3 dress designs they are focusing on: Pi, pirates, and dinosaurs.

To get these innovative designs, these moms worked with a graphic designer and a pattern-maker. Their ideas inspire us to think creatively about new ways we can help our customers express their interests through stationery.

The demand sounds high and now customers are looking for boy options, too! Another great idea If you’d like to support this company, please visit their page. Would your daughters enjoy wearing these unique dresses?

It’s an exciting time for high school seniors everywhere, as they prepare to walk across the stage to receive their diploma, a milestone capping all their hard work in school. Sharing this moment with family and friends is a wonderful way to honor the graduate and send him or her off into the world. To start the graduation party, you must first start with the graduation invitation, and we are excited to give you a sneak peek of our new designs! Here are a few of the new graduation invitation ideas that our design team focused on this year.

1. School Logo. These graduation announcements feature a place for you to share your school logo. Show your high school pride by using your high school logo or look ahead to the future and add your college logo.

2. Foil, foil, foil. We added a new collection of foil graduation invitations that add the perfect amount of shine to your card. It’s a chic and classy look that is sure to wow family and friends. Foil colors include silver and gold.

3. Photos galore. Our multi-photo cards are always top sellers in graduation invitations so our design team worked on creating new designs that would feature multiple photo spots to add more personality to your card. Whether they’re photos from senior year, activities, special acheivements or baby photos, you have lots of ways to share them!

There you have it — a sneak peek at our new graduation invitation ideas that our design team focused on this year. We hope you enjoy personalizing the graduation announcement and reminiscing on all the achievements your grad has made throughout the years. Keep a couple tissues handy for these exciting days ahead!

Graduation season is nearly upon us and that signifies an incredible achievement not only for the graduate, but also for his or her family. Planning a unique and memorable graduation party can be overwhelming, but we are here to help you find ways to add the perfect personalized touch! These top 5 graduation party ideas started with by choosing the graduation announcements for inspiration and incorporating graduation party decorations from Pear Tree Greetings. Just add a touch of DIY from family or friends to finalize the party setup.

1. The Year in Photos. This graduation party idea has been a hit with our followers on Pinterest, receiving over 11,000 repins! The Year in Photos idea came from our Kraft & Shine Graduation Party that was inspired by our Kraft Ribbon Booklet Graduation Announcements. For this idea, organize printed photos in the shape of your graduation year. Add festive-colored balloons for an added touch.

2. The Year in Cupcakes. This graduation party idea looks delicious! The Year in Cupcakes idea came from one of our Featured Favorites who used the Trifold Dots Graduation Announcements for a joint graduation party and personalized it with bright, fun colors that matched their outfits in the photos. For this idea, they cut out cardboard numbers for the class year and used props to lift the numbers off the table to give it some dimension. Add delicious cupcakes with sprinkles that match the invitation and you have yourself a (tasty) hit!

3. Elegant Table Decor. This graduation party idea features an elegant table display using a chic, black tablecloth filled with flowers, mason jars, gift boxes and our Painted Year Table Decor personalized with photos of the graduate. Take inspiration from this idea and add your personal twist to it.

4. Wall of Memories. This graduation party idea came from our All Star Graduation Party that incorporated various sports-themed ideas. You can create your own wall of memories using photos from the graduate from baby through senior year. We also incorporated our Snapshot Photo Table Decor to highlight some of our favorite photos and tefxt that was important to the graduate (like the name of his high school and his football number). Once you have the photos and table decor you like, clothespin them to twine to get this rustic look.

5. Standout Centerpieces. This idea, like The Year in Cupcakes from above, is from one of our Featured Favorites who planned a joint graduation party. To create the look, this mom used various sizes of mason jars and added a blue mason jar for a pop of color. She lined the clear jars with burlap, tied pink or blue string around the top or middle of the jars and added our Snapshot Photo Table Decor taped on wooden sticks. In the blue mason jars, she added sprigs of baby’s breath for a classic look. Under each centerpiece, she layered blue or pink fabric that coordinated with the table decor and invitation. Beautiful.

Our friends at Red Stamp have a fun and interactive app where you can send greetings right from your mobile device. With Valentine’s Day coming later this week, download their app and take a peek at their darling Valentine’s Day collection. They offer a really great way to stay in touch with those you don’t see as often, but still want to send a little message that you are thinking of them.

The designs Red Stamp offers are cute and clever—Pear Tree Greetings even has its own collection on their app! Once you select the valentine you like, personalize the card just like you would with Pear Tree. You can upload your favorite photo(s), change the colors and add your message. And, bonus, when you do a mobile send, it’s free! Yes, completely FREE! You just select if you want to text it, email it or share it on a social network. Easy peasy.

To download the app, go to the app store or Google Play. Once you download it, scroll through their designs and you will find all sorts of ideas to keep family & friends close to your heart.

Our classroom valentines are such a hit with kids and parents. The child can choose the valentine that best reflects their personality and the hobbies they may have. My sister-in-law, Andrea, texted me a photo of my niece’s Valentine’s Day cards and they were perfect for the things they are interested in so I just had to have her share these Valentine’s Day ideas!

Andrea’s daughter, Mylah, chose the All Eyes on Owl Valentine’s Day Cards for Kids. This design is interactive and gives the recipients something to take home and color! Andrea said, “Mylah can’t wait to get her valentines ready for her pre-school and daycare. She loves the fact that they can actually color their valentine if they want. She just loves to color, it’s one of her favorite things so it only makes sense that she would want to share that with her class. I love the envelopes they are so cute and just her size. We plan on giving each kid a couple color crayons taped to the outside of the envelopes.” Mylah also got matching Color Me Happy Valentine’s Day Stickers that she can also include in the envelope with her valentine. “The stickers are so colorful and the perfect size.”

Whitley, Andrea’s youngest, also got valentines she is going to hand out at daycare. Andrea shares a little on her choice for the Be My Cupcake Lollipop Holder Classroom Valentine, “Whitley LOVES suckers so these were the perfect choice for her. I enjoyed the fact that I could pick the colors and change the wording of the cards. I’m sure her friends at daycare will love getting a little sweet treat from her.”

They are the sweetest valentines, and I bet all their friends will love getting these darling designs from them. You can find the perfect Valentine’s Day cards to match your child’s personality and interests by shopping our classroom valentines. They are quick to personalize and oh-so adorable!

Valentine’s Day is such a sweet time of the year for classmates and friends to share their appreciation for each other with nice Valentine’s Day cards. Our design team always enjoys coming up with new, sweet ideas that moms and their kids will love to hand out. Not only are our classroom valentines personalized by you, but they also feature cute sayings other than the typical “Happy Valentine’s Day”. These valentines match the saying and the style of the card; like “love bites valentine” with shark bites on the card and “you’re a slam dunk valentine” in a basketball design and shape. These 10 Valentine’s Day wording ideas will have classmates giggling and their moms thinking how cool you are!

Whooo could resist these cute Valentine’s Day wording ideas with the darling themes each card represents? They are cute, clever and will make you a hit for finding these little gems. If one caught your eye above, simply click on the image, otherwise shop all our classroom valentines to find the card that you and your child adore!

Awww how sweet is Addisyn? She is so unbelievably sweet and she just happens to be the daughter of my very best friend, Brooke. When I received Addisyn’s Monogram Dots Trifold birth announcement in the mail, I was in love. The photographs from Images by Drea are beautiful and the colors match her outfit with the card perfectly. So, I asked my best friend if she would share a little about her birth announcement ideas and be our Featured Favorite this month.

Brooke was elated and said, “As soon as we had our daughter’s newborn pictures taken I couldn’t wait to create a birth announcement and mail it out to all of our family and friends (I mean, we do have to brag a little about our girlie, right?!) I knew that Pear Tree Greetings was going to have exactly what I wanted. I loved that I was able to change colors and personalize everything just the way I envisioned it! They were delivered quickly, looked beautiful and I had so many compliments on them! Couldn’t be happier!”

She has a wonderful vision and I couldn’t be happier that she chose Pear Tree birth announcements to share this exciting milestone with loved ones. Now, I can’t wait to see what she comes up with for Addisyn’s 1st birthday party. (I won’t put any pressure on her, I promise ;)).

The big game is just days away and whether you watch for the match-up of the New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks or for the highly entertaining commercials or half-time show, one thing always holds true, there will be food and there will be lots of it!! If you’re struggling to find ideas on what to bring to your party, we have you covered. We are sharing with you our top 10 crowd-pleasing Super Bowl food ideas that will make you a hit at your party.

1. Pizza roll-ups. These are perfect finger foods for adults and children to enjoy! Get the recipe here.

2. Football field chip dip. Create a stadium of deliciousness! It’s even outlined in sandwiches. YUM! Get the full idea here.

5. Pepperoni pizza. Bake a pepperoni pizza (or order one) and make the pepperonis shaped as a football with cheese as the laces.

6. Cheesy bacon oven chips. I’m sure you’ve started drooling by now and if not, this will make you. These cheesy bacon oven chips are paired with Chipolte Ranch dipping sauce. Might want to eat a couple before the party starts because they won’t be available for long! Get the recipe here.

7. Buffalo chicken dip. This is now a must at any party. It’s flavorful and always a crowd-pleaser. Get the recipe here.

8. Football strawberries. After all these hearty dishes, fruit would be a nice addition (especially one dipped in chocolate). Just dip and draw the laces.

9. Football cupcakes. We can’t forget about dessert. These chocolate cupcakes are in football spirit with laces and fondant to make goal posts. “It’s Good!”

10. Cookies ‘n’ Cream football field. If you’re team didn’t win, it won’t matter when you eat some of this Cookies ‘n’ Cream dessert. Shredded coconut makes the green grass and vanilla wafers are used to scoop out the football. Everyone wins with this dessert. Get the recipe here.

There you have 10 Super Bowl food ideas that will make you a hit at your party! If you’re looking for more ideas, check out our office Super Bowl party to inspire decorations and for more food ideas. And for any party, don’t forget to set the theme with our party invitations!